MORE The small dog area at the Sepulveda Basin Off-Leash Dog Park in Encino at dusk. Photo by Benjamin Gottlieb.
Genia Ahranian doesn’t know what she would do without her daily trips to the dog park.
“I retired years ago,” Ahranian says, sitting contently with her red poodle named Dousha on her lap under a canopy of trees in the San Fernando Valley. The name, she says, means “sweet face” in Russian slang.
“The moment you cross the gates, you enter another world. I call this place paradise.”
Genia Ahranian and her red poodle Dousha sitting together at the Sepulveda Basin Off-Leash Dog Park in Encino. Photo by Benjamin Gottlieb.
2020 in photos: Political battles, civil unrest, and celebrations hit the streets of a pandemic LA
Dec. 22, 2020
KCRW looks back at the year’s biggest events from President Trump’s impeachment trial to the protests against racial injustice, and the celebrations around victories by the LA Lakers, Dodgers, and presidential contender Joe Biden.
JANUARY
The death of Kobe Bryant
The sudden death of LA Laker Kobe Bryant brought the city together in a moment of collective mourning. He and seven others died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas. Hours afterward, thousands of Angelenos flocked to the Staples Center in downtown LA and grieved together.